Chapter 1270: Carrying on the Past and Opening Up the Future (160) Yingshui Fangshu

Unlike the bustling but chaotic banks on the other side, Yingshui is a different scene, with identical buildings arranged neatly like a queue of soldiers standing upright, and roads made of cement plan these houses into small squares, and the streets are wide and clean.

In the Han State, the military and the government were now strictly separated, the army did not interfere in the government, and the only role of the army was to protect the territory and the people, and to be ready to fight the enemy at any time, while governing the locality, managing the people's livelihood, and developing the economy were the affairs of the local officials. Because of the particularity of the place where Yingshui is located, the county commander Fang Shu here was directly sent down from the political affairs hall, after graduating from Jicheng Comprehensive University, he was directly selected by the political affairs hall because of his excellent grades, and he was trained in the political affairs hall for several years, and the most he usually did was to assist in coordinating the military's logistics needs and making the army's preliminary budget. So although this person is a civilian official, he is definitely no stranger to the military, and because he often deals with soldiers, his temperament is also very arrogant.

Yingshui is at the forefront of this place, and the most important job of the county order is to be able to take on the logistics of the army in the event of a war, so that the army fighting in the front has no worries, Fang Shu is such a suitable person.

As the first batch of their own talents cultivated by Jicheng Comprehensive University, and also the reserve officials trained by the Han State, they are ready to be of great use, this person naturally has several brushes, not only proficient in military affairs, but also has his own unique set of methods in people's livelihood governance. has been in the political hall for a long time with those treacherous and slippery bigwigs, and this one is naturally proficient in all kinds of skills.

Outside Yingshui City, the original large wasteland, Fang Shu didn't simply sell him to the merchants, he found a few business predators, these people contributed capital, Yingshui came out of the land, and formed a semi-official and semi-private company. The new word company, since their king Gao Yuan first used it in Procter & Gamble Co., Ltd., is now not a thing that people don't understand in Han Kingdom, in Han Kingdom, this company and that company have made Han people accustomed to it.

After the official establishment of the company called Hengan, it immediately built such a large number of houses with uniform specifications and sizes outside Yingshui City, and then rented them out to merchants to do business. Up to now, the rent of the houses here is not much better than that of Jicheng, and Hengan Company is naturally full of money. And the Yingshui County Government naturally made a fortune because of this.

The county government is so rich that the money will naturally be used, so in Yingshui, roads began to be built, hardened, and water conservancy projects began to be built from the Yingshui River and flowed to the four towns and eight miles.

Yingshui County is the first county in the Han Dynasty to be completely exempted from agricultural taxes. Of course, this is also the only special case in the country, which was specially approved by Gao Yuan after receiving the recital from Fang Shu. Because Yingshui no longer cares about the taxes paid by farmers. Unlike the most front-line pro-people officials in various places, without exception, who particularly emphasized the grain output of the peasants, Fang Shu took an ordinary road from the beginning, and in Yingshui County, the peasants' main agricultural product was not grain. Rather, it is sparse vegetables, because of the rapid expansion of Yingshui County, the population has increased rapidly. The sales volume of sparse vegetables and fish meat is increasing day by day, and the price is also rising all the way, and now Yingshui County, the army, merchants, and local aborigines, together have more than 100,000 people, which is more than the population of some remote counties. The demand for fish is staggering.

The current vegetables in Yingshui County not only supply the needs of Yingshui County, but also supply the people of the nominal enemy countries on the other side, Fang Shu once proudly said that seventy or eighty percent of the vegetables eaten by the generals of the Qin State on the other side are produced by Yingshui. Don't look at the profit of this vegetable is not high, and the loss is also large, but it can't stand people to eat every day, the demand is amazing, and the accumulated wealth is also quite amazing, and the income is much higher than that of growing grain.

The county government has money, naturally belongs to the wealthy, Yingshui County in the innovation of governance policies, after creating a number of firsts, in the people's livelihood is also unusual, the first in the Han country to implement subsidies for the elderly, the elderly over 60 years old can receive a tael of silver per month, over 70 years old two taels, over 80 years old five taels, this policy as soon as it was launched, applause and doubts in the whole country resounded, not every place is like Yingshui, because of a peculiar phenomenon caused by the current prosperity of the scene and the money is too much to be used up. The government affairs hall also has mixed opinions about the prefectural order that walked out from them, especially the last policy, which was finally decided under the insistence of Gao Yuan.

Fang Shu's cleverness lies in the fact that the relationship with the military is handled extremely well, who is the supreme commander stationed in Yingshui? Ye Feng. Who is Ye Feng, that is Uncle Guo, through this Uncle Guo, many Fang Shu's policies have already reached the heavens in the brewing stage. Ye Feng can't directly go to Gao Yuan, but he can communicate with his sister in family letters, and if he talks about these things in the family letter, Ye Jing'er will naturally tell Gao Yuan about new things, and quietly let the Son of Heaven directly know some things at the bottom.

Gao Yuan naturally knew about Fang Shu's little wrist, but he didn't care, if an official didn't have a wrist, what could he do. And this Fang Shu is indeed a talent that surprises him very much, and sometimes Gao Yuan even thinks that this guy is not the same as himself, with a soul from another world in his body. For Gao Yuan, many policies can find some distant and unfamiliar memories.

So Yingshui became an experimental ground for Gao Yuan, so he consciously or unintentionally discussed Fang Shu's policies with Ye Jing'er, and even put forward his own ideas, and these ideas reached Fang Shu's ears through Ye Jing'er and Ye Feng's family letters.

Fang Shu was a guy who was unusually smart, and from these vague information, he accurately judged that the supreme ruler of the Han Dynasty not only did not oppose these policies of the Han Dynasty, but put forward some bolder ideas and more pertinent suggestions, allowing him to gradually improve his new policy in Yingshui County in the process of continuous refinement.

After the implementation of new policies again and again and great achievements, Fang Shu also seems to see his bright future. Yingshui was originally a Korean land in the past, and it can be said that it was an unusually poor place, but now in terms of wealth, Yingshui is definitely one of the strongest counties in the whole Han Kingdom.

As Yingshui County is getting richer and richer, a number of measures to benefit the people have been launched, and the population of many surrounding counties has begun to migrate to Yingshui, which has also caused constant friction between Yingshui County and other surrounding counties. In the end, this lawsuit went all the way from the county to the political affairs hall, Fang Shu did not please this time, he was severely reprimanded, and he had to start to strengthen control in this regard, and it was not so easy to become the resident population of Yingshui County.

Of course, Fang Shu would not forget the original intention of the Political Affairs Hall to send him to Yingshui, he had always spared no effort to support the army, especially when the head of the garrison was Ye Feng, this was the most convenient passage for him to connect to the palace of Jicheng. Ye Feng's army lives here in a permanent house, the county government spent money to build a reinforced concrete barracks in the army station, and the logistical support provided for the troops is always the best, and every now and then they will find a reason, or by the county government, or by local gentlemen, businessmen to form a reward team, to send food, vegetables and pigs and sheep to the army, so Ye Feng's army is always the best living and strongest army in the Han army.

Now Fang Shu is eyeing the Yingshui River flowing in Yingshui County, he plans to build a permanent berm, and cast a cement pavement on the berm, of course, building a bridge to connect the two sides is also one of his plans, now, the embankment has been built, but the bridge is at an impasse.

The merchant he contacted had touched a hard nail in Tan Feng's place, which made Fang Shu annoyed. Because of the existence of Yingshui, relying on the ferry ferry on the wharf is far from satisfying the cross-strait business exchanges, which naturally hinders his money-making plan, if there is a bridge, not only can solve this problem, but also collect the road money, he has calculated, this business is not only long-lasting, but also amazingly profitable.

For this matter, he specially discussed with Ye Feng for a long time, until Ye Feng thought that if there is a bridge or not, it will not have much impact on the war that may break out between the two sides. How to fight and how to fight. Ye Feng's conclusion was the reason why he finally made up his mind, but he couldn't be the master in this matter, and he had to agree with the other side, but now it seemed that there was not much hope, which made Fang Shu very annoyed. You must know that in order to contact the skilled and wealthy businessman of the Han Kingdom, he took a lot of effort.

But what Fang Shu never expected was that the idea of building a bridge over the Yingshui River was shattered, but this matter summoned the Chu people, looking at the letter in his hand, he knew that he really couldn't be the master of this matter.

The bridge is built in front of his eyes, and many things are under his control, but if he really wants to go deep into the ground, it is not an ordinary trivial matter, the construction of a reinforced concrete bridge, which involves the latest road engineering technology of the Han Kingdom, it is difficult to say whether he can go out, but faintly, he saw a wealth avenue beckoning to him, and it was a pity to let it go.

"Come on, go and ask Master Ye to come over immediately." summoned a subordinate official and instructed, for such a major matter, it seems that Ye Feng still has to inquire about the king's attitude first. (To be continued......)